An aspect of my life that I think was a result of hanging around this wild scene as a teenager is that I had no desire to have my own kids. Never. It wasn’t a gut-wrenching decision for me at all and I don’t regret it today. I went on birth control at age eighteen and it never occurred to me to become a mother. Not once. When I was growing up, I never saw any families really enjoying their children. I remember thinking as a teenager, “Wow, nobody seems to like having kids. Nobody seems happy having kids. It’s a burden, not a joy.” It seemed like everybody would rather be partying and fucking
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